Search Results - "Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives"

The percentage of people who work from home (WFH) skyrocketed with the onset of Covid-19. Today, many workers continue to WFH, either completely or a few days a week. One reason for the popularity of WFH is a desire to minimize the commute and its associated costs in time, money, discomfort, and dan...

Full description

Traffic sign detection (TSD) is a critical task in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and autonomous driving, facing challenges such as complex backgrounds and small-scale objects. Existing methods often suffer from high miss and false alarm rates, particularly in dynamic or cluttered environm...

Full description

Rising injury and fatality rates of vulnerable road users (VRUs) challenge policy efforts to make roads safer and contribute to public hesitancy to bike or walk more. To date, data-driven solutions to address VRU safety often rely on official crash data, but these data are limited in reflecting tota...

Full description

Traffic barriers are known as one of the most popular safety countermeasures to minimize severe collisions from crossing medians and run-off-road at locations with non-traversable roadsides. This paper examines the impact of different traffic barrier types on crash severity with five years (2016–202...

Full description

Driving heterogeneity significantly influences traffic performance, contributing to traffic disturbances, increased crash risks, and inefficient fuel use and emissions. With the growing availability of driving behaviour data, Machine Learning (ML) techniques have become widely used for analysing dri...

Full description

This study explores the use of Many Objective Robust Decision Making (MORDM) to manage deep uncertainty in transport climate policy analysis. The focus is on policies supporting Sweden’s ambition to achieve net-zero emissions by 2045. A case study analysis demonstrating how MORDM can be applied to a...

Full description

This research aims at tackling the traffic signal problem for large-scale networks via a deep learning approach. Our ultimate goal is to construct an automatic traffic management system, where human operators supply commands, and the system realizes them via executing appropriate signal plans (SPs)...

Full description

Traffic calming measures are crucial for sustainable traffic management. Globally, vertical and horizontal techniques, such as speed humps, speed cushions, roundabouts and chicanes are used to reduce vehicle speeds and enhance road safety. While effective in achieving these goals, traditional traffi...

Full description

Management of road networks is an ever-evolving challenge, particularly as urbanization and mobility demands grow. Effectively addressing this challenge involves integrating high-level directions from various strategies, policies, and plans into network operating plans and real-time traffic control...

Full description

Despite decades of investment in public transport, little is known about the cumulative and structural effects of key demand-side drivers, such as accessibility, pricing and income – factors included in definitions of transport poverty. The presented study addresses this deficiency by applying data...

Full description

This study examines the operational efficiency of Thailand’s Southern Railway Line under mixed-traffic conditions using the UIC 406 methodology and Timetable Planning Quality evaluation. The corridor integrates electric commuter and long-distance trains on shared tracks with different control system...

Full description

The deployment of Automated Vehicles (AVs) is expected to address road transport externalities (e.g., safety, traffic, environmental impact, etc.). For this reason, a legal framework for their large-scale market introduction and deployment is currently being developed in the European Union. Despite...

Full description

In the tariff conditions and fare lists of public passenger transport in the Slovak Republic, there are also groups of passengers who are holders of disability/disability with companion cards and their companions. This group of passengers is transported at discounted or free fares, the level of fare...

Full description

This paper presents a novel approach for assessing and monitoring Sustainable Development Goal 11.2.1, which measures the proportion of an urban population having convenient access to public transport. Despite its global importance as the key indicator for urban mobility, many cities face significan...

Full description

Climatic change and wildfire risk have direct implications for the railway industry. Wildfires pose risks to railways in areas with steep topography, sufficient fuels to sustain fire, and meteorological conditions that can ignite large fires. Railway infrastructure and operations also increase the r...

Full description

The aerodynamic drag of a motorcycle greatly affects its energy efficiency, with the rider’s posture being a key factor in determining overall drag. This study presents a systematic comparative analysis of various rider postures through a multi-phase experimental approach: modification of an electri...

Full description

Understanding car drivers’ behavior should move beyond describing aspects of individual drivers’ behavior. This article proposes that cognitive representations of the interaction between drivers in terms of imagining other road users’ mental pictures of a certain road situation as well as the situat...

Full description

According to the two-component view of attitude, attitudes have both affective and cognitive components, and affective-cognitive consistency is an attitude strength construct, which may contribute to the inconsistent findings of the predictive effect of attitudes on driving behaviors in previous stu...

Full description

This study investigated behavioral consistency of across the operations of braking, accelerating, and steering between a real vehicle and a driving simulator (DS). Behavioral consistency between the real vehicle and the DS was examined based on two criteria. The upper criterion was derived from the...

Full description

Older drivers are prematurely ceasing driving due to stress experienced while on the road. This study aims to explore the traffic situations that induce stress among older drivers. We collected unstructured data on stressful driving situations through Focus Group Interviews (FGI) with 8 interviewees...

Full description